A proem about the tube, the subway, all the adventures you'll have, all the people you'll meet, or see, throughout several weeks of wonder, maybe years of perspective, all fit into the thimble that the universe came from. Where upon you can give them the old finger and fly off the handle.

It’s just before Valentine’s Day, and Cupid is bored. Two mortals seeking to capture him and steal his power promise to fix that problem, but the appearance of three other gods of love from around the world lead to new ones. The two mortals endure gender swaps and other transformations as they become pawns in the Valentine War.

In 1969 the innocent Katya arrives in a small Spanish village to study art. She is overwhelmed by a swirl of artists, hippies, freaks, and the “respectable.” Against the Institute’s wishes she falls in with Franz, who is everything her parents and church warned her about. Amid the comic follies of both hippies and Establishment Katya has to choose. At the end she stands naked before the world.

Stephen Sharp finds himself in a game of Russian Roulette with a motley crew of associates including Franklin Bletch (a greedy corporate executive), the beautiful Carly Wilson (who hides a deadly secret) and elderly Judith Scruth who has her reasons for being there. There can be only one winner.